gears vs. glxgears; i915 for Linux binaries?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:42:53 -0700 Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 22:07 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:28:39 -0700 Eric Anholt wrote:
> > 
> > > You're getting software rendering with linux_dri.  LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
> > > is the way to debug DRI issues, but I can shortcut here and yes, the
> > > absence of i915_dri.so is the problem.  We need to get linux_dri updated
> > > to a set of recent Mesa binaries.  I wonder what our current
> > 
> > There are some efforts. :-) But no "when" so far.
> > 
> > > linux_base's package of dri modules looks like?
> > 
> > Linux_base doesn't have any X-related stuff. Nore does current linux
> > X-port (linux-xorg-libs). We do have only graphics/linux_dri based on
> > XFree86-4.4.0.

> OK, I checked what FC4 has, and their big xorg RPM is 6.8.2 and contains
> DRI drivers.  However, I don't think we want to use FC4's, not just
> because of the size of the RPM, but also because the drivers are likely
> to be too stale.  The DRI driver <-> DDX interface breaks backwards
> compat much more often than the DRI <-> DRM interface (which in theory
> never breaks).  So, we really want some fresh Mesa 6.4.2+ DRI drivers,
> which we can't get from FC4.

> So, that means someone needs to get a linux box with suitable glibc
> again and roll their own like I used to, probably.  Or maybe steal
> binaries from some other distro.  Suggestions?

The only one candidate I've found so far is Mesa-6.4.2-19.i586.rpm
from OpenSuSE:
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/.1/Linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/i586/Mesa-6.4.2-19.i586.rpm

I'll try to test it soon. Anybody willing may beat me at testing. ;-)


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